Comments on: Microsoft’s Blackhole Keyboard Horror Show

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:41:00 +0000

I have tried every darn thing – still not working. My old cheapo keyboard, though, works fine.

Why do you need two, Russell? One for each hand?

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:32:00 +0000

Yes, Russell, I’m sure that makes Glenda feel *so* much better *grin*.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:52:00 +0000

Argh – I was the one who recommeded Glenda get the ergonomic keyboard. Peter’s on to it. Try another keyboard after rebooting, or if you have more than one USB port, try the keyboard in that.

Does it help, Glenda, if I tell you that both my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboards are working fine?

By: K.E. Mills

K.E. Mills — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:28:00 +0000

I’d have a word with Russell. He uses the same keyboard and he’s all geeky and stuff. I’ll bet he can fix it, whatever it is!

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:05:00 +0000

Glenda, there’s got to be a chapter or a short story in that experience. And ergonomic or not, I will never buy one of those keyboards!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:53:00 +0000

One way to find out if the fault is with the keyboard or something other is to replace the keyboard with the original or similar and reboot the computer.

Sometimes I think that computer hardware is semi-sentient and waits for a critical moment to attack. *g*

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:08:00 +0000

I had a similar thing happen a while back - I was trying to delete a couple of words and I highlighted them and went to press the delete key, then realised that somehow either Word or my mouse had decided to keep on going with the highlighting - I had to wait until it finished highlighting the entire document (and it was over 500 pages long!) before I could anything.

Which was of course NOT hit the delete key!

I unhighlighted everything, saved the document as it was as a separate document, then returned to what I had been trying to do. Heart pounding, I highlighted the offending words very carefully..... and everything behaved itself!

Barb

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:53:00 +0000

Bastards… *grin*. I volunteer to proof read to check for those nasty typos!!!